Reality Construction
Surprise is intimately connected to the idea of acting in accordance with a set of rules. When the rules of reality generating events of daily life separate from the rules of thumb expectations, surprise is the outcome. Surprise represents the difference between expectations and reality, the gap between our assumptions and expectations about worldly events and the way that those events actually turn out. In essence, surprises are the end result of predictions that fail.
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Famous quotes containing the words reality and/or construction:
“no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,
or thought:
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terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities
of escape open: no route shut,”
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“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
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